Fonts look different after upgrade

ok so I upgraded something via pacman -Syu and now after restarting, I find that some of the fonts have changed, not that it's a problem but is this normal?
The words look smaller now and less bolded. Changes have appeared in both firefox, acroread, the login page, xchm and others which I have not tried.

even after adding nomodeset into menu.lst, I still get the same font with the login screen, firefox, etc.
what should I do?
Is grub like lilo where I need to run something to update the binary?

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